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New to headship series

People management: build buy-in as you step up

How to get your team onside, even when you feel like an imposter, and tackle the most worrying HR issues with confidence.

Autumn 2024
2 live classes hosted online, after school
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This course is exclusively available to The Key's Whole School members. 
If you're not yet a Whole School member, find out more here.

What’s special about this course?

Classes packed with real-life scenarios that we'll solve together, and phase-specific support including an 'ask me anything' with a secondary headteacher. You'll walk away with peer relationships that you can lean on throughout your headship journey.

Class 1

Tuesday 24 September
4pm to 5.30pm, on Zoom

With Dr Vic Carr

Getting your team to work with you and for you

Learn how to:

  • Build a team and get genuine buy-in at pace
  • Spot talent and develop the right people (and see work come off your plate!) 
  • Hone your people processes and make them clear, to avoid issues later 
  • Manage the self-doubt that people management can bring

Class 2

Tuesday 8 October 
4pm to 5.30pm, on Zoom

With Dr Vic Carr

The really tricky people problems

Learn how to:

  • Handle those difficult and sometimes painful conversations
  • Lead formal procedures, including capability, disciplinary and appeals 
  • Run a restructure with clarity and empathy
  • Keep your head and get creative if you can’t solve an issue first time 

Your expert course trainer

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Dr Vic Carr

Dr Victoria Carr (Vic) is a primary headteacher with 12 years’ headship experience that spans 2 different but equally challenging schools. She is a Chartered Manager, a senior fellow at Leeds Beckett University and a fellow in the Chartered College of Teaching.

Vic is passionate about coaching and leadership and published her first book, Leading with Love, last year. Her second book, on school improvement, is coming this October. Vic is also mum to Tom and Izzy – and school dog Gus!

You can connect with her on X (formerly Twitter) at @HappyHead74.

Who can attend

This course is for you if you’re:

  • Feeling new to headship
  • Preparing for a new headship role
  • Aspiring to headship any time soon

This course caters for leaders in all phases and settings.

Not quite right for you? Take a look at our people management course for new and aspiring senior leaders instead.

This course is exclusively available to The Key's Whole School members. If you're not yet a Whole School member,
find out more here.

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More reasons to love this course

Active learning, not passive instruction

Your live classes won't just be lectures. Vic will engage the class, invite discussion, prompt breakout activities and leave plenty of room for Q&A. You'll learn by doing, with practical tasks between classes and regular feedback from the trainers and your class colleagues.

Learn with a cohort of peers

Learning virtually doesn't mean learning solo. This course is designed to be rich in energising interaction between you and your colleagues - it's your safe space to ask questions and seek peer feedback, and make connections for life. 

Develop your own menu of practical strategies that work

Apply what you learn straight away, with practical strategies drawn from expert advice and excellent practice. Adopt the best of what works, for immediate change and lasting impact in your school.

Earn a certificate of achievement

Complete your classes and get a certificate of achievement from The Key for your learning record.

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What other participants have said about our courses

“I now know what steps to take to be an effective leader"

“This course gave me confidence, opportunities to share good practice, and up-to-date research”

"The tasks were very practical and a brilliant way to secure that knowledge"

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